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Great Wall FIDIC 2005 Annual Conference
Beijing, 4 - 8 September
Sustainable engineering - global leadership
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FIDIC meeting presentations
 
Directors and Secretaries Meeting (agenda PDF)
- Lars Goldschmidt, Danish networks PPT
- Claude-Paul Bovin, QBS PPT 3.1 MB
- Sri Lergernes, Building Cost Programme, Norway PPT
- Freek Hasselaar, MA MD PPT

 Presidents Meeting (agenda PDF)
- Annual Report PPT
- Skill shortages PPT
- Young professionals PPT
- President's Report PPT 13.2 MB
- Training activities PPT
 
General Assembly Meeting
- Agenda and documents
Plenary presentations
 
- Ma Kai, China NDRC: Sustainable Development RTF
- Zhang Shengman, World Bank: Role of Consultants RTF
- Linqun Jin, ADB: Developing Asia RTF
- Richard Burrett, ABN-AMRO: Sustainability and finance PPT
- John Boyd, FIDIC: Implications for our industry RTF PPT 1 MB
- Marcus Lee, MEA: Ecosystem services PPT 1 MB; MEA findings PPT
- R.A. Kell, FIDIC President: Accepting the Challenge RTF 0.5 MB
Workshop reports
  

 Young Professionals' Reports (PDF)
 
1. Capacity building - How can FIDIC best contribute?

Chair: John Ritchie, Acres Intl, Canada
Speakers:
- John Ritchie PPT 0.5 MB PDF 0.9 MB
- Hu Jinke, China
- Peter Boswell, FIDIC
- Gian Casartelli, World Bank PPT 0.9 MB PDF 0.4 MB
- Chun Kew Yuan, Singapore

FIDIC is committed to the principle that a consulting engineering industry must be sustainable in order to achieve sustainability in projects within the country. This workshop will consider the status of the engineering industry using FIDIC’s survey, and will brainstorm capacity building both current and needed to achieve sustainability.

The efforts of the FIDIC Capacity Building Task Force will be showcased and results to date highlighted. Participants will brainstorm capacity building as a prerequisite for achieving sustainability. Views will be provided from the perspective of a developing country; from a young professional; from FIDIC; from the World Bank (with its interests in both the capacity of the consulting industry, as well as the skills of its borrowing agencies); and from the chair of FIDIC’s committee on capacity building.
 
2. What clients want
 
Chair: Denys Reades, Golder Associates, Canada
 
Report: RTF 2.0 MB
 
Speakers:
- Nick Wood, Shell China PPT 8.2 MB PDF 0.9 MB
- Hing Mung, Alcan Asia, China Hong Kong  PDF 2.2 MB
- Clement Yuen, Cheung Kong, China Hong Kong PPT 13.4 MB PDF 2.2 MB
 
There is clear evidence that clients from a diverse range of sectors are now engaging consultants to specifically deliver sustainable solutions. But what services are clients seeking? How do these services relate to their corporate goals? What are the characteristics of a sustainability project? Join leading speakers from several industries in discussing business opportunities in the burgeoning sustainability markets. Participants will come away with a concept of the sustainability market as seen from the perspective of these different industries. 
 
3. Delivering a sustainable project

Chair: Bill Wallace, Wallace Futures, USA

Speakers:
- Bill Wallace PDF 3.3 MB
- Bill Wallace: PSM roadmap RTF 0.3 MB PDF 0.1 MB
- Bill Wallace: PSM roadmap text PDF 0.1 MB
- Bill Wallace: PSM case studies: school PDF 0.1 MB; water PDF 0.1 MB
- Jim Beechinor, AMEC, Canada PPT 4.0 MB PDF 0.2 MB
- Cai Zhiguo, China RTF 3.1 MB PDF 0.1 MB

The workshop is aimed at de-mystifying sustainability for clients and consultants alike. Practitioners will provide case studies of how they implemented sustainable technologies, processes and systems in both the developed and developing countries. They will describe what issues arose and how they were addressed.

Learn also first hand from FIDIC’s Sustainability Taskforce chair on latest developments with FIDIC’s Project Sustainability guidelines. How will the new indicators and guidelines work in practice? In fact, most of the workshops have been encouraged to apply the guidelines with specific examples, to demonstrate how, in fact, they can be applied.

4. How to deliver sustainability in an increasingly global market

Chair: Bayo Adeola, CPMS, Nigeria

Speakers:
- Bayo Adeola  PPT 0.2 MB PDF 0.1 MB
- Suleiman Adamu, Integrated Engineering Assoc., Nigeria PPT 0.2 MB PDF 0.3 MB (text RTF 0.1 MB PDF 0.1 MB)
- Harry Noy, Arcadis, Netherlands PPT 2.6 MB PDF 0.5 MB
- Jawahar Kaul, India PPT 0.1 MB PDF 0.1 MB (text RTF 0.1 MB PDF 0.1 MB)

Globalisation is one of the main concerns of consulting engineering firms. It is creating a borderless business climate for trade in services. What are the barriers to success? What are some of the lessons learnt? How do perspectives differ between developed and developing economies? What are the different expectations and how can these be met to ensure all parties benefit?

Participants in this workshop will develop a punch list of requirements for delivering services on an international basis from a local organization. They will also explore how partnerships can be used to take advantage of the opportunities for delivering sustainable engineering services to the international standards which clients are demanding.

5. Sustainable financing and procurement of projects

Chair: Flemming Pedersen, Ramboll, Denmark

Speakers: 
- Glen Daigger, CH2M Hill, USA PPT 0.3 MB
- Lin Jishang, Novozymes, China PPT 4.8 MB

It is accepted that recognition of the social, environmental and economic dimensions of a project is the key to successful project implementation. The workshop explores a) what changes to the procurement processes are needed to encourage sustainable projects; b) how government policies can be translated into real projects; c) how sustainability can be “operationalised” and sold to clients through justification for obtaining funds for the application of sustainable development principles to projects.

6. Disaster mitigation and sustainable remediation

Chair: Iksan van der Putte, RPS, Netherlands

Speakers:
- Ike van der Putte Summary RTF PPT 2.0 MB
- Jan Coppes, Witteveen+Bos, Netherlands Summary RTF PPT 2.0 MB
- Subhash Mehrotra, Mehro Consultants, India RTF PPT 1.9 MB
- Koichiro Haru, Nihon Suido, Japan RTF PPT 2.0 MB
- Bill Wallace, Wallace Futures, USA Summary RTF PPT 1.2 MB
- Wang Zenyao PPT 5.2 MB
 
Practitioners highlight their experiences on what changes to project design are needed to mitigate disaster impacts and, in particular, will illustrate how PSM principles can be applied directly to the mitigation of disasters arising from horrific events such as the recent tsunamis across southern Asia.

7. Sustainable municipal infrastructure

Chair: Bill Howard, Camp, Dresser & McKee, USA

Speakers:
- Yi Yan, Shenzhen Association of Consulting Engineers RTF
- Althea Povey, Kwezi V3 Engineers, South Africa PPT 24.0 MB
- Bill Howard, Camp, Dresser & McKee, USA text RTF PPT 1.2 MB

Sustainability principles, when applied to municipal infrastructure projects - buildings, urban renewal, waste management, transportation systems - provide immense opportunities for consulting firms. The key components of several sustainable municipal infrastructure projects are illustrated, together with challenges faced by urban communities so that participants developed an idea of what sustainable infrastructure looks like, whether in a developed or developing economy. Critical are the formation of high performance teams. Participants developed a list of critical success factors for a sustainable infrastructure project.

8. Sustainable water supplies

Chair: Yumio Ishii, CTI, Japan

Speakers:
- Abstract and CVs WORD
- Yoshihiko Yamashita, CTI, Japan: PSM case study WORD
- Stan Kawaguchi, USA: text RTF; presentation PPT

Presentations described applications of sustainable technologies, processes and systems to water supply to illustrate FIDIC’s recommendations to the 2003 Third World Water Forum that will be taken up at the Fourth World Water Forum, Mexico, March 2006.

9. BST Workshop: Connecting people, process and technology

Chair: Peter Boswell, FIDIC

Speakers:
- Javier Baldor, BST
- Eduardo Niebles, BST PPT 2.2 MB

Discussed how a company can: a) grow its top line by increasing sales pipeline visibility, streamlining the proposal development process and being able to focus on winning more projects; b) Improve cash flow by proactively managing Work in Progress and Accounts Receivable, shortening invoice processing cycles and reducing day sales outstanding; c) Increase profitability by reducing project overruns, proactively managing projects and simplifying the project initiation process.

10. Quality in procurement

Chair: Gregs Thomopulos, Stanley Consultants, USA

Speakers:
- Gian Casartelli, WB PPT 0.1 MB
- Dilek Macit, EBRD PPT 0.2 MB
- Robert Robertson, ADB PPT 0.5 MB
- Gregs Thomopulos, FIDIC PPT 4.7 MB
- Yann Leblais, EFCA PPT 0.1 MB
 
Speakers from the World Bank, Asian Development Bank and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development hare the latest thinking amongst MDBs on streamlining and expediting procedures for procurement whilst ensuring high quality outcomes. FIDIC and EFCA  reinforce the consulting industry’s case for those non-price attributes that will lead to the realisation of the objectives of both lenders and borrowers (and other clients), as well as ensuring the sustainability of consulting engineering sector.

11. Integrity Management

Chair: Felipe Ochoa, Mexico

Speakers:
- Felipe Ochoa, México
  Update on FIDIC’s business integrity management efforts
- Renko Campen, DHV, The Netherlands
  First hand experience of a major consulting firm with BIMS
- Peter Dent, Deloitte & Touche, Canada
  Best Practices - The importance of FIDIC’s Business Integrity Management System
- Michael Stevens, Asian Development Bank: text RTF
  Anticorruption policy of the ADB
- Tiemann Dippel, USA
  BIMS a Private Sector Initiative to prevent corruption
- Wang Wei Guang, Central Party School, China
  Central Party School: Efforts on anticorruption

12. Design-Build-Operate: a new project delivery method

Chair: Axel Jaeger, NEK, Germany

Panelists: 
- Axel Jaeger, NEK, Germany
  FIDIC DBO Contract PPT 0.3 MB
- Robin Crouch, Germany
- Flemming Pedersen, Ramboll, Denmark 

In a business climate where clients, both public and private, are tending to shift risk, the Design Build Operate (DBO) method of project delivery is increasingly popular. In response to the need for an internationally recognised form of contract, FIDIC is developing a model DBO contract to add to its current suite of works contracts. The draft outline was presented for review and discussion at the workshop.

13. Design-Build: role of the consulting engineer

Chair: Tony Barry, Connell Wagner, Australia

Speakers
- Tony Barry, Connell Wagner, Australia Text RTF 8.6 MB Text Word 8.9 MB PPT 0.8 MB Terms PPT 0.5 MB
  Update on experience in Australia - advantages and pitfalls
- Renko Campen, DHV, Netherlands
  Latest developments in the Netherlands, including results of study
- Tse Yau Shing, Singapore  Text RTF PPT 0.3 MB
  Best Practices - The CE engagement in D-B
- Gregs Thomopulos, Stanley Consultants, USA PPT 4.2 MB
  FIDIC’s Best Practice Committee comments, Task Force objectives and forward programme
- Rasit Unuvar, ATCEA, Turkey
  Recent experiences from Turkey PPT 0.2 MB
 
The explosion in the use of D-B in the implementation of projects is creating new risks as well as opportunities for consulting engineers. This workshop reviewed current international trends and challenges and opportunities for the consulting engineer in Design Build; and the development a FIDIC Best Practice Guide for the CE in the Design-Build process.

14. Risk Management Forum

Chair: Steve Bamforth, G&A, UK

Speakers
- Steve Bamforth, G&A, UK PPT 0.1 MB
- Tonny Barry, Connell Wagner, Australia, Australian perspective PPT 0.8 MB
- Nora Fung, ACE, UK PPT 0.6 MB
- Keith Lonsdale, BLM, UK PPT 0.1 MB

15. Young Professionals Management Training Programme

Chair: Steen Frederiksen, Denmark

Speakers
- Summary report PPT 1.7 MB
- Feedback on 2005 Programme RTF 1.7 MB
 
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